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The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention awarded a three-year, $1.5 million nurse suicide prevention grant to nurse researchers at the University of California San Diego, Ohio State University and the American Nurses Association.
Congress should enact legislation to offer health care workers protections against violence, according to a STAT opinion piece.
The Nursing Community Coalition this week sent a letter to the House and Senate Appropriations Committees requesting the funding levels that advanced out of the House Appropriations Committee.
The American Hospital Association’s 2023 Health Care Workforce Scan focuses on reconnecting clinicians to purpose; providing support, training and technology clinicians need to thrive in multiple care delivery environments
Once the COVID-19 public health emergency ends and the federally purchased supply depletes, individuals will pay for tests, vaccines and treatments.
Children’s hospitals across the country are admitting a surge of children with respiratory syncytial virus.
The United States is experiencing a resurgence in influenza, with the flu hospitalization rate at this early time in the season the highest in a decade, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
When providers and staff were asked to rate their unit/work area on patient safety, 67% considered their unit/work area “excellent” or “very good”, according to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s 2022 Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture.
In an American Hospital Association podcast, a manager at Children’s Minnesota in Minneapolis/St. Paul discusses how its Community Connect program uses check-ups at primary care clinics to identify unmet health-related social needs.
The DAISY Foundation opened applications last week for several grant opportunities.